Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2016-10-31
Number: 16-091/V
Author-Name: Jan C. van Ours
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Author-Name: Yuxin Yao
Author-Workplace-Name: Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Title: The Wage Penalty of Dialect-Speaking
Abstract: Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into account differences in personal characteristics and province fixed effects male dialect speakers earn 4.1% less while for females this is 2.8%. Using the geographic distance to Amsterdam as an instrumental variable to dialect-speaking, we find that male workers who speak a dialect earn 11.6% less while for female workers this is 1.6%. Our main conclusion is that for male workers there is a significant wage penalty of dialect-speaking while for female workers there is no significant difference.
Classification-JEL: J24, I2
Keywords: Dialect-speaking, wage penalty, job characteristics
File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/16091.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20160091